TEHRAN- The annual production of saffron in Iran has planned to reach 360 tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2017), the country’s deputy agriculture minister, Mohammad-Ali Tahmasbi, told IRNA on Saturday.

The official put the country’s saffron output at 351 tons in the previous calendar year and said that 113.5 tons of the produced saffron valued at $165 million was exported in the past year.

Iran’s worth of saffron exports during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-August 21) rose 5.7 percent compared to the same period of time in the previous year, Gholamreza Miri, the vice chairman of National Iranian Saffron Council, said on September 26.

The country exported $73 million worth of saffron during the mentioned time, according to Miri. 

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